Countries
Turkey, Uzbekistan
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Afganistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Middle East
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
Interesting Facts
- Uzbek is officially written in the Latin script, but many people still use Cyrillic script.
- In Uzbek language, there are many loanwords from Russian, Arabic and Persian.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Kazakh and Uyghur Languages
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Uzbek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Salom
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
Rakhmat
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
Qalay siz?
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
Hayirli tun
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
Hayirli kech
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
Hayirli kun
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
Hayirli tong
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Iltimos
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Kechiring!
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Xayr
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
Sizni sevaman
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
Iltimos! Menga qarang
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Tashkent
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Afghan
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Olonets
  
Dialect 3
Ferghana
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
276.00 million
  
6
Native Speakers
26.00 million
  
31
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
أۇزبېك ﺗﻴﻠی o'zbek tili ўзбек тили (o‘zbek tili)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
Russki
  
French Name
ouszbek
  
russe
  
German Name
Usbekisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Uzbek
  
Russians
  
Origin
9th–12th centuries AD
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Southestern(Chagatai)
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Chagatay
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Uzbek
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
uz
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
uzb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
uzb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
uzb
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
uzbe1247
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic